My summary response to statistics for sourcing is to put in a plug for Qualitative Analysis of Narratives and Interviews. That covered, . . . .

It looks to me like that Cracked article is a personal experience account. Granted, it is an essay written with some emotional rhetoric including sarcasm and maybe some sensationalism, it is a “sensationalist” (horror) story she’s been through. Also, the links are more “legit” articles, like “causing . . . [teens’] . . .problems _TO_WORSEN_” leads to a Washington Post article (though hasn’t that top newspaper has had a few of its own issues?) by the author of the book “Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids,” journalist Maia Szalavitz. Several of the articles linked to are stories based on the book or the findings of the book, including the Vice.com article the next link at “_MY_STORY_IS_NOT_UNIQUE_,” but this article also includes quotes from new interviews with not only author Maia Szalavitz, but also a former teen sufferer of one of the programs.

I followed a link from this article about the 6 deaths in the past 8 years ( D: ) at programs under Aspen Education, one of the main, for-profit companies behind many of these teen “rehabs.” A Salon article “Dark Side of a Bain Success” proved very comprehensive–and the finding of the for-profit political torture goes all the way to the top. Beware, more information into these programs and their far- and high-reaching backing by former and candidate Republican presidents just makes the reader sicker. TRIGGER WARNING if you’ve had a negative teen, or adult addiction, rehab program experience.

What’s even sadder, though, is that the Wikipedia article on Aspen Education DOES NOT CONTAIN MENTION OF THIS CRITICISM or even links to it, and only mentions ONE of the young people who died in their “care,” of those SIX teen deaths! Let’s change that!
In fact, the “Criticism” section on the Wikipedia page is actually self-serving to Aspen Education and their programs, critiquing the fact that programs were closed and staff switched, without mentioning why, because of the consequence of interrupting the continuity of a treatment plan–in fact, therefore, promoting sub-textually that the centers not be investigated or shut down . . . when this is exactly what the real critics are calling for!
(c) Copyright Sabri Sky January 18, 2014

“You cannot dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools.” — Audre Lorde

This is why Bill Cosby has been called an “oreo” in YT’s sweater, and accused of being black bougie.

It is true and very sad that some, maybe many African-Americans/Black people don’t know a lot about African countries. Picking up extra work at a factory once, I spoke French with and helped translate from/for a number of French-speaking workers from French-colonized African countries, primarily the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo). A young Black/African-American guy worker asked me, “Where’d you learn to speak African?” Most of the Black/African-American people I’ve been acquainted with are well-spoken and educated, though admittedly I’ve run primarily in college educated circles. (Pun intended, as reiterated by a couple of Black/African-American woman with Master’s degrees and their own business, who still dealt with a lot of racial discrimination, blocked in-roads to business based on assumption of a lack of traditional education or racial mistrust.)

These two particular women had been able to trace and find out as much as possible about their nations, tribes, and ethnic groups of origin in Africa (among the European roots their lineages were mixed with).

However, the choice to try to make a better life in the new world is not quite the same as being sold and kidnapped onto the Middle Passage into slavery on a foreign continent.

I do agree with Dr. Cosby about the term African-American; it is othering. But there are many who say the history of origin should not be erased in defining people as this minority and historically oppressed group in favor of assimilation. And if it were done away with, would it help stop racial discrimination, or ignore and undermine it? In fact, would deleting this race label insult the people who fought for it in the Back to Africa Movement, and the associated gains? Would it cover up or help to ignore the problems facing this group of people as a group? …As a (supposed/socially constructed) race based on skin color?